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Recent Burundi Local Data — Updated

ACLED has released updated data about recent unrests in Burundi. Over the last two months, Bujumbura – and, over time, several countryside towns – have experienced recurring protests and riots from opposition members to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term. Drawing mainly on information displayed on 2015Burundi, we have updated the ACLED dataset. Data from 26 April 2015 to 11 June 2015 were published earlier this month. New data covering conflict events through 26 June 2015 are now available here.

Protests have stopped since 18 June 2015 and clashes between rioters and police forces follow the same trend, though we continue to observe regular occurrences of violent events. Several attacks from unidentified armed groups have targeted both civilians and police forces over the last week, suggesting an evolution in the form of the Burundian crisis.

2015Burundi’s events have been re-coded following ACLED’s methodology. 2015Burundi coded as separate incidents occurring within a single conflict event (e.g., barricades, clashes with police forces, rioters killed, and so on). While this provides further nuance about conflict dynamics, it has the effect of painting the illusion of more activity than what may have occurred on the ground. In order to maintain coherence with the rest of the ACLED dataset, ACLED has merged these incidents into single events, in line with ACLED coding methods. Details and insights about each of the incidents coded by 2015Burundi remains available in the note column for each ACLED conflict event.

To download all ACLED data for the entire time period of coverage, simply click ‘export’

To download all available ACLED data for a specific time period, simply enter a date range and click ‘export’

Please be aware that ACLED covers over 80 countries, but the period of active coverage differs. For African states, all data are available from January 1st 1997 onwards. For other countries, more recent periods are available and the details for each country can be found here

To download real-time and historical data for specific event types, choose in that category and leave all other categories as they are. All data for that event type will be exported.

To download real-time and historical data for specific actor type or actor, choose in that category and leave all other categories as they are. All data for that event type will be exported.

To download real-time and historical data for specific region, country or location, choose in that category and leave all other categories as they are. All data for that event type will be exported.

By default, the data are exported in a format where each row represents an single event, on a specific day and location and involving distinct actors.

A actor based file has events by single actors, meaning that events are often repeated if two actors are involved. The difference between the two file types is based on whether the data are being used to analyse patterns over time, types of violence, conflict between groups, or locations (which the normal file type is best for), or to analyse actor types or specific actors, when the “actor-based” file is best.

Many guides to, and details of, the data use and coding processes can be found on the resource pages.